In the preK class I used to intern in, had a great teacher. The teacher had her class in order, on task,paying attention ready to learn. Now that Is what I call classroom managent. In the discipline area, my teacher wasn't to strict on that. When a student did something out of order, it was never go to the corner. It was either a mental talk to get them back on track or she'd have them walk away and count to 5 to calm their body. Although with discipline the mental talk did not always work, so she moved foward with the walk away and calm your body. Of course that did not always work either, which would leave her to go to a strict discipline and consequence.
When I become a teacher, I hope to manage my classroom like my preK teacher did. I hope to have good classroom management. Always keeping my classroom under control and on task is my main things. Hopefully with a thing I call the count down method, I could get some control. The countdown method is basically when you give your students something to do and you start counting down to make sure they actually get it done. Such as getting them to go sit on the carpet, I would use the countdown method.
I used to always think discipline equals timeout, there will be no timeout in my classroom. There wont be no getting sent to the office in my classroom. You will be treated according to how you act, for example... Your acting like a baby? That's fine I can treat you like a baby. Since your acting like a baby. You get the opportunity to hold my hand at recess while your friends. That's the type of consequence I will have in my classroom.
Everyone has their own way of handling classroom management and discipline.
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